{"id":14761,"date":"2013-11-23T14:29:40","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T22:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2013\/11\/23\/14761.html"},"modified":"2013-11-23T14:29:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T22:29:40","slug":"trek-fan-films-with-chekov-uhu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2013\/11\/23\/trek-fan-films-with-chekov-uhu\/","title":{"rendered":"Trek fan films with Chekov, Uhura, Tuvok, and Rand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I just found out about Star Trek: Of Gods and Men<\/cite><\/a>, a 90-minute Star Trek<\/cite> fan film released in 2008, available free online, featuring the original actors as Uhura, Chekov, Janice Rand, Tuvok, and John Harriman, plus other Trek<\/cite> actors in new roles. Plus James Cawley, who played Kirk in the New Voyages<\/a><\/cite> series of fan episodes, as a nephew of James Kirk. The movie (well, okay, it's really a miniseries of three 30-minute episodes) was written by two DS9<\/cite> writers. It's set in 2305, twelve years after the events at the beginning of Star Trek: Generations<\/cite>, and decades before TNG<\/cite>.<\/p>\n

I've only watched the first ten minutes so far, but it's especially lovely to see Nichelle Nichols again.<\/p>\n

You can watch the whole thing<\/a> on their website, as a YouTube video. Note that the first minute of the video, confusingly, is an unlabeled ad for an entirely different fan film, Star Trek: Renegades<\/cite>.<\/p>\n

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Which brings me to the second part of this post. Of Gods and Men<\/cite>, as noted above, came out in 2008. The same people who made that later successfully completed a Kickstarter to create a new Trek<\/cite> episode, a pilot for a proposed series to be called Star Trek: Renegades<\/cite>. The Renegades<\/cite> trailer<\/a> has now been released (1-min video). It's set ten years after the end of Voyager<\/cite>, and although it includes some Trek<\/cite> actors and characters (including Chekov and Tuvok, but not Uhura), it looks like the focus will be on a new “motley crew of outcasts,” as Wikipedia puts it.<\/p>\n

Which makes me think the idea is to do something between Trek<\/cite> and Blake's 7<\/cite>. A darker and grittier Trek<\/cite> series. I'm not convinced that's a great idea, but I love seeing the passion and dedication that goes into these non-canonical projects, and I'm intrigued by the idea of this being pitched to the studio to become a new canonical series.<\/p>\n

I'm also really pleased that the owners of the official Trek<\/cite> franchise continue to be so tolerant of fan projects. I imagine that they could have shut down all of this stuff years ago had they been so inclined, but they seem to recognize that the fan-film activity (perhaps especially when it's created by people who've been heavily involved in the canonical shows and movies) is good for the franchise.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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